Just as Equal Pay Day brings attention to the disparity in pay for men and women, it could be useful to also establish an Equal Housework Day to benchmark the progress men are making performing household and caregiving tasks.
The current budget crises at all levels of government has brought out the disparity in pay and benefits for government workers.
If that was why women worked, it made perfect economic sense: because of the disparity in pay and career opportunity between men and women, virtually the only way a woman could improve her economic situation was to marry.
The pay disparity is accounted for by women holding lower-pay jobs and women being paid less than men in the same jobs and getting lower pay increases.
And it is true at the business level, where companies with greater diversity in senior management have higher returns, lower volatility, more innovation, greater customer focus, better stockholder returns and lower gender pay disparity.
The financial-reform bill signed last week by President Barack Obama gives shareholders of all companies a periodic, nonbinding vote on their corporation's executive-pay plan and requires companies to disclose the disparity between the CEO's pay and that of other employees.
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He told MPs the government wanted to address the "widening disparity" between boardroom pay and pay on the shop floor that he said had occurred under Labour.
The disparity between executive and average pay in companies, he said, was "a recipe for desperately low morale" in the workforce.
The Welsh Conservative group leader in the Assembly, Andrew R T Davies has warned in the past about regional pay creating "disparity in parts of the United Kingdom".
The issues of executive pay and growing income disparity were rising on the political agenda, as did the issue of raising the minimum wage.
Most interesting, there was a very large disparity in the average tuition that students at the respective party schools pay.
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And among the main reasons for the low morale in Myanmar's armed forces is the near-impossibility of career advancement without bribes -- and a disparity in wealth between the soldiers and generals that far exceeds the difference in official pay.
Now keep in mind, this was 34 years after the Equal Pay Act was signed by President Kennedy in 1963, a law designed to abolish wage disparity based on gender.
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